Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the nation's creaky election system, even this act was not final. Technically, the President would not be duly elected until next Jan. 6 at 1 p.m., when the House & Senate will meet in joint session for a formal electoral vote count. But there was a strong probability that the final result, as announced on Jan. 6, would be: Roosevelt, 432; Dewey...
...home. But as airmen worked into intimate acquaintanceship with their massive, wondrously complicated weapon, the assaults were stepped up both in timing and in loads dropped. This week, when the B-29s had struck the great industrial center at Nagoya a second time, the force on Saipan could count five assaults on the Jap mainland...
...climbed on the back of our Trojan buddie Randolph "Pits" Phillips, editorially speaking, but he really isn't the soap-shirker we make him out to be. Oh, did you hear how the Count de Wright got pigeoned into going down for cakes? Oh, well, you can't have your own cake...
...position of this Government has been consistently that the composition of the Italian Government is purely an Italian affair. . . . This Government has not in any way intimated to the Italian Government that there would be any opposition on its part to Count Sforza. . . . We have reaffirmed to both the British and Italian Governments that we expect the Italians to work out their problems of government along democratic lines without influence from outside. This policy would apply to an even more pronounced degree with regards to governments of the United Nations in their liberated territories...
...week's end, the Stettinius statement had roused a mixed reaction in Europe. In a ringing speech, Winston Churchill made the British position pikestaff plain (see FOREIGN NEWS). In Italy, Count Sforza was cautiously grateful for "American generosity"-but he did not get into a new government. Moscow was aloof and silent. U.S.-Soviet relations, however, had never been better...